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Third HDRO Conference on Measuring Human Progress, 10 March 2014, New York
United Nations Statistics Division
Minimum Set of Gender Indicators Data availability
to measure and monitor gender issues
Francesca Grum, ChiefSocial and Housing Statistics Section
UNSD
Third HDRO Conference on Measuring Human Progress, 10 March 2014, New York
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Global Gender Statistics Programme
Mandated by the UN Statistical Commission
Coordinated by the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics IAEG-GS
Implemented by the UN Statistics Division/key partners
Third HDRO Conference on Measuring Human Progress, 10 March 2014, New York
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Minimum Set of Gender Indicators
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Background • Internationally-agreed indicators to monitor gender equality
and women’s empowerment (IAEG-GS 2011 and UN Statistical Commission 2013)
– Gender indicators (52)– Gender indicators related to national norms (11)
• Five domains– Economic structures, participation in productive activities and
access to resources – Education– Health and related services– Human rights of women and the girl child– Public life and decision-making
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Organization of indicators in Tiers
International data compilation
Promoting capacity building activities
Methodological developments – e.g., EDGE project
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Gender data platform
• Improve access to data and methods
• Launched at CSW, 12 March 2014
• Contribution from 14 partner agencies
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Data availability Tier I indicators (35 inds)
Average number of countries with data, by area
Indicators, by number of data points, 1990-2012
Average # countries data are available for
144
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Tier II (some data available + agreed int’l definition)
promoting capacity building– Focus of work on:
Violence Against Women (VAW),
Time Use Statistics (TUS)
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Violence against Women: Data availability
Total number of surveys included = 121
Total number of countries with (some) data = 80
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Number of SURVEYS conducted on VAW since 2000 - by type of violence covered
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TUS: Data availability
TUS since 1990:• 185 surveys/studies on time use conducted worldwide→92 (50%) in “countries in developing regions”→93 (50%) in “developed countries”
• In total 85 distinct countries:→28 “developed countries” →57 “developing countries”
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sconcerns/tuse/default.aspx
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Tier III = EDGE project –
Evidence and Data for Gender Equality
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EDGE Project A 3-year initiative (UNSD and UN Women)
Overall objective:
Improving the integration of gender issues into the regular production of official statistics for better evidence-based policies
HealthEducationEmployment
1
International platform for data and metadata on health, education and employment
2
Guidelines for comparable gender indicators on entrepreneurship and asset ownership
3
Results of pilot testing in selected countries